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LOJIC maintains an Internet web site that is a source of much information about the consortium, data sources, applications and training opportunities. The Internet is a rapidly growing platform for providing LOJIC GIS capabilities to the public and private sectors. The LOJIC web site already includes several simple online applications to allow map data browsing, polling locations and contact information elected officials. PVA and LOJIC collaborated in developing a subscription web site to allow online query of detailed property information, photo images and property maps.
Building on the successes and information infrastructure of the LOJIC partnership, City/County agencies and MSD are laying the foundation for implementing a unified system for development plan review and permitting. This new system, to be integrated with the LOJIC GIS, will automate and track all aspects of our community’s myriad processes for submittal and review of development plans and issuing permits. The system will be a common tool shared among over 30 departments of local government. Participants in the project are currently involved in cooperatively defining specific user requirements, assessing hardware/software needs and reviewing departmental business processes. The new plan review and permitting system, to be implemented in several phases, is scheduled for completion by 2003.
Several applications have been written by technical staff for use by users throughout the consortium. These applications ease query, plotting and database development for users who are not command-line ARC/INFO programmers.
- The Generic Query Interface (GQI) is a generic query and display application that provides many of the easy to use, theme based geo-processing tools that ArcView provides, but runs on top of an ARC/INFO engine. GQI provides a powerful interface to high level ARC/INFO functionality such as geo-coding, routing, and path finding. The software is easily modified and is used commonly as a basis for custom user applications.
- The Products Application is a GQI-based application designed to track the sale and production of available LOJIC products. These products include standard plan and topo maps, user requested custom maps using numerous data features beyond basic PTD data, digital imagery and digital data in various formats for use on other platforms (such as DXF data for AutoCAD users). The primary value of the application is to quickly produce and record mapping products, saving time for LOJIC customers and staff.
- Quality Control Routines (QCR) provide standard quality control checking and reporting of database validity. The application can be modified based on different verification standards for each dataset. It is easy to use, and provides report output of errors and anomalies. Use of this application is required for all database development activities.
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